The Insider

President Robert Mugabe is allegedly trying to use indigenisation to lure votes in the country’s next elections. If that is true, then it is nothing new because Mugabe announced nearly 10 years ago that his government was introducing a new indigenisation bill that would require companies to allocate a minimum of 20 percent shareholding to their workers.

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Geoff Nyarota was one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated journalists until something went wrong at the newspaper that he had started- The Daily News. The newspaper lives on, having been shut down for seven years, but without him. There are 19 Wikileaks cables on him.

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Professor Masipula Sithole told United States embassy officials in the run-up to the 2002 presidential elections that Zimbabwe had never had free and fair elections.

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Maurice Nyagumbo, who was one of the top five in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front soon after the merger with the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, was the leader of a faction of the Manyika that was loyal to President Robert Mugabe and opposed the other Manyika faction led by Edgar Tekere.

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Police on 12 September 2003 raided the offices and printing press of The Daily News forcing production to cease.

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The editor of the Daily News Geoff Nyarota was fired and his deputy Davison Maruziva who had been asked to step in as acting editor resigned in protest against Nyarota’s dismissal.

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Geoff Nyarota, editor-in-chief of The Daily News, filed a Z$6 million lawsuit against Information Minister Jonathan Moyo for defamation in July 2002.

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The trial of Daily News editor Geoff Nyarota and his reporter Lloyd Mudiwa was referred to the Supreme Court after their lawyers said the case raised serious constitutional issues.

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The trial of Daily News reporter Lloyd Mudiwa, who was charged with publishing falsehoods after his report that a woman was supposedly beheaded by Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front supporters, was postponed.

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The editor of the Standard Bornwell Chakaodza set a new record when he was arrested three times in one week. He was arrested on 16, 22 and 23 May 2002.

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